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Show TV Fare The Salt Lake Tribune Monday, February 7, 1983 Searchers Probing for More Pieces of Norm Comfortable Barfly In His Corner of Cheers SearchGREAT SALT LAKE ers, who have found another piece of a U.S. Air Force 6 jet that crashed here Jan. 19, began probing Sunday for 15 to 25 other submerged pieces believed to be the remainder of the wreckage. Jerry Graham of Cross International, the Utah search and rescue firm hired to find and recover the plane, said if the other pieces are determined to be portions of the plane, it will mark the end of one of the most extensive searches ever conducted on the Great Salt Lake. The piece of wreckage was found Saturday about 3 p.m. northwest of Promontory Point, about 60 miles west of Ogden. But the body of the pilot, Maj. William F. George II, 36, was not found inside with iL Return to Area Mr. Graham said after the wreckage was taken to shore for identification, searchers returned in boats to the same place and used sonar to help verify the location of the other pieces. Lt. Col Joe Winsett, Air Force public relations spokesman, said it wont be known for sure whether the pieces are part of the wreckage until crews bring them to the surface. He said removing the pieces from the water will be the next step in the search. Mr. Graham said if the pieces are part of the crashed plane, it could F-1- chipmunk cheeks that are growing into jowls. One glance and you know that Norm never jogs or does anything else that is healthy if he can possibly avoid it. No Sex Object He is no sex object. He is the sort of man that women see and think, If I ever get reduced to that, Ill . . . But sex objects are a minority in most bars in this country, as Im sure you know if youve visited By Lee Winfrey r Knight-Bidde- Newspapers Perhaps the least famous cult figure on television is George Wendt, who plays the role of Norm on Cheers. Relatively few people know him, but most who do think of him as almost a personal pal. Cheers is an NBC comedy set in a Boston bar. Norm habitually sits on the corner stool at the end of the bar farthest from the front door. That is fitting, because Norm isnt looking for anybody who might be coming in. He is only interested in the mugs of beer that are endlessly set before him. Norm has no last name. That, too, is fitting, because his nationality does not matter. Norm is Everyman, or at least every drinking man. He is a classic version of the man who finds more comfort in a bar than anywhere else. No Hostility or Interest Norm is married. He has a wife named Vera, but she has never been seen on Cheers. Norm mentions her occasionally, without hostility but also without interest. Between the lines is the message that his marriage is one of the reasons that he spends most of his nights sitting inside the bar called Cheers. As a friend toted a drunken Norm toward the bar door on the series premiere in September, he asked, Norm, doesnt your wife ever wonder where youre at? Norm replied, in three words that told all: Wonders. Doesnt care. Wendts character is overweight, doubtless as a result of all that beer he drinks. His belly hangs over his belt like a rabbit in a sack. He has many. Here again, Norm is Everyman. Its that most of not surprising Norms fans are men. They either see themselves mirrored in him, or see in him a figure they like to think that they strike only occasionally. Either way, drinking men have affection for Norm, or else they would hate themselves. I met Wendt last month, and I am pleased to tell you that he is so much like Norm that there is scarcely a definable line between the actor and the character he portrays. Wendt has Norms simplicity and directness, his lack of pretense and ego, his appetite for life. Waiting for Norm When I was invited to a party on the set of Cheers, which is produced for NBC by Paramount, I went immediately to Norms corner stool and waited for Wendt. He arrived soon, sharply dressed in a blue blazer and gray slacks, blue shirt and black shoes, but with his plaid tie pulled loose from his collar to relieve the formality. He said that at home he is indeed a beer drinker, just like Norm. But on the set of Cheers, he is forced to drink vile servings of near beer. 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